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VARADKAR FACES PARTY CRISIS

May 19, 2022

THE ROW over the maternity hospital has many fathers and chief among the suspects is a certain panic in the ranks of Fine... Read more »

PROFILE: SEÁN CLANCY

May 19, 2022

THE NEW chief of staff of the Defence Forces, Seán Clancy, has had an exciting introduction to public life. First, he was castigated... Read more »

YOUNG BLOOD: ERIN MCGREEHAN

May 19, 2022

WHILE FIANNA Fáil’s poll ratings are not as rosy as many media have reported, its levels of support among young people – and... Read more »

IN THEIR ELEMENT

May 19, 2022

THEY SAY timing is everything in showbusiness. News of Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe’s sale of a majority stake in their Element Pictures... Read more »

WHITHER STEPHEN DONNELLY?

May 19, 2022

HEALTH MINISTER Stephen Donnelly has become a convenient target again in health controversies, this time at the national maternity hospital. The minister now... Read more »

ROAR – CECELIA AHERN

May 19, 2022

THROUGHOUT HER career as a middling-to-awful fiction writer, Cecelia Ahern has generally given a wide berth to socio-political issues. But having noted the... Read more »

ALLPRO’S WAR DIVIDEND

May 19, 2022

RODERIC O’GORMAN’S Department of Integration has been dishing out contracts to companies for the provision of services relating to the housing of Ukrainian... Read more »

TED WALSH’S RTÉ RIDE

May 19, 2022

PUNTERS WILL be interested to see if Ted Walsh’s latest blunder on RTÉ’s racing coverage of Punchestown has any repercussions for his long-held... Read more »

MYERSCOUGH’S WORK-OUT

May 19, 2022

DOCUMENTS JUST filed in the Companies Office records a different ownership structure in Jamie Myerscough’s Vitruvian Fitness operation than had been registered. Previously,... Read more »

RAYMOND STANLEY’S SPREAD

May 19, 2022

AN IMPRESSIVE Victorian pile in Cabinteely in south Co Dublin has come on the market with a price tag of €2.75m. Although owned by... Read more »

KEVIN DOYLE’S PUNT

May 19, 2022

FORMER IRISH international footballer Kevin Doyle caused something of a stir two-and-a-half years ago, when he paid €155,000 for a colt foal at... Read more »

VOL 40 NO 10

May 19, 2022

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JP MCMANUS’S MIX-UP

May 19, 2022

GENEVA-BASED zillionaire JP McManus is no ordinary racehorse owner. He has long been lashing out bucketloads of moolah to buy top-pedigree steeplechasers and... Read more »

NOEL SMYTH’S DOGFIGHT

May 19, 2022

A MEETING takes place this week to decide whether solicitor turned property developer Noel Smyth can buy the National Show Centre near Dublin... Read more »

RTÉ DRAMA AWARD

May 19, 2022

RTÉ’S FRAN McNULTY must have felt he was McNulty, front man in an episode of The Wire, rather than McNulty of Prime Time... Read more »

HIGGINS, DR CAHILL AND THE NYC FRACAS

May 19, 2022

THE DOCTOR at the centre of a controversial plan to sell off the most prestigious Irish-American building in the US has been ordered... Read more »

JOE MCHUGH’S EXIT

May 19, 2022

THE RETIREMENT of former education minister, Donegal based Joe McHugh, is described as a blow to Fine Gael as the party, it is... Read more »

UNREST IN MICHAEL COLLINS COUNTY

May 19, 2022

IN THIS the centenary of Michael Collins death in the Civil War, Cork Fine Gael members are not exactly brimming with pride or... Read more »

NO SET-TO IN WATERFORD

May 19, 2022

TWO ACADEMICS have just made unexpected scholarly Odysseys from the country’s oldest university to the youngest. The first surprise was when former Trinity... Read more »

McCOY’S FLEETING CLIMATE EPIPHANY

May 19, 2022

IT IS widely assumed that within this government, only the Greens have any real interest in the climate crisis. However, there is growing... Read more »

GENTLE EU POLICING

May 19, 2022

WITH THE housing crisis; the logistics of helping Ukrainian refugees; and the furore over the National Maternity Hospital, a lot of the business... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

May 19, 2022

I think I was manifesting before I even realised what I was doing. Pippa O’Connor, VIP Magazine, submitted by reader Surprisingly for a... Read more »

ALLIANCE SURGE

May 19, 2022

“SO YOU see now this growing middle ground of people who don’t want to be defined by religion or by ethnic or national... Read more »

FF-FG COALITION STRAINS

May 19, 2022

THE OUTRAGED accusations from Fianna Fáil TDs and ministers against alleged dirty tricks by their Fine Gael counterparts over the National Maternity Hospital... Read more »

BLUESHIRT KULAKS REGROUP

May 19, 2022

NOT SINCE Stalin massacred the Kulaks in the USSR did farmers receive such treatment as that meted out to the 11-year-old Fine Gael... Read more »

‘IRISH TIMES’ HAS BAD ELECTION

May 19, 2022

THE LATHER of excitement about the northern assembly elections whipped up by the Irish Times – stimulated by its craving for the hallowed... Read more »

FT’S UNITED IRELAND LECTURE

May 19, 2022

WHAT AN interesting comment Financial Times contributing editor Philip Stephens made in his column last weekend about preparations (or not) for a united... Read more »

OLD LADY OF TARA STREET’S TRUSTEES

May 19, 2022

WHAT A perfect business pedigree newly appointed governor of the Irish Times Trust, Maeve Carton, possesses and how well she will fit in... Read more »

EAMON RYAN AND BIG TECH’S FREE PASS

May 19, 2022

THERE WAS a distinctly Churchillian, spirit-of-the-Blitz feel to the unveiling by environment minister Eamon Ryan last month of the Energy Security Emergency Group... Read more »

DELOITTE’S COAL CLIENT

May 19, 2022

DELOITTE IRELAND CEO Harry Goddard shared some profound words of wisdom on the subject of corporate climate leadership at the launch of DCU’s... Read more »

BOG CUTTINGS

May 19, 2022

FIGHT NIGHT DROGHEDA DISTRICT Court heard the case of one John Lynn (54) of Rathmullen Park, Drogheda, who was arrested for challenging gardaí... Read more »

THE ASHMANS’ BOTTOM DRAWER

May 19, 2022

IAN AND VICKY Ashman, a couple of loaded English corporate solicitors who swapped legal briefs for the skimpy ones when they set up... Read more »

PANDEMONIUM – JACK HORGAN-JONES/HUGH O’CONNELL

May 19, 2022

THIS IS the second book on the Covid-19 pandemic in Ireland. It also has two experienced political hacks as authors and benefits from... Read more »

NETFLIX’S LOBBYING

May 19, 2022

IT IS something of a paradox that, under legislation intended to bolster local and European culture against globalised mass media, the Irish taxpayer... Read more »

ANDREW NOONAN’S NEW MENU

May 19, 2022

AMONG THE number of festivals lined up for a presumably pandemic-free 2022 is the music/food mishmash that is the Big Grill Festival, now... Read more »

TYNER’S TIMING

May 19, 2022

WHEN CORK trainer Robert Tyner recently announced his intention to begin winding down his business after a successful 30-year career, citing the constant... Read more »

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